HHMI & CSHL: Feeding Scientific Minds
he Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has supported scientific education at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) continuously since 1987. In April 1999, HHMI made a grant of $1.32 million to CSHL, furthering its support of advanced courses in molecular biology, sTRuctural biology and neuroscience—including a new program in advanced imaging techniques.
The Tradition of science education at CSHL dates back to the summer of 1890. On July 7 of that year, the first science class—a General Course in Biology—was taught at the Biological Laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor.
Children, teachers, and scientists have studied science at Cold Spring Harbor every summer since then. And as scientific knowledge has grown, so, too, have the CSHL courses—both in number and in the range of their topics. Early courses at the Laboratory were designed for science teachers and undergraduates. Then, in the summer of 1945, the Laboratory began to offer advanced courses for scientists and other postgraduates. But it wasn’t until the fall of 1987, with funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, that the Laboratory extended its program of summer courses to an intense, nearly year-round schedule.
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